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Anna Oankova, Bulgaria
Oratoria is a contemporary performance that creates a neo-dramaturgy consisting of music articulations based on variety of genres ranging from opera to trash and hardcore by using only the intonation and sound extraction. It choreographs a contemporary dance from the gestures we use while speaking. The project traces human verbal development solely through the non-rational, automatic and affective aspects of speech - intonation (music) and gesture (dance). Thus Oratoria "reconstructs" a universal "authentic" proto-language, that everyone can understand, and opens up a space for research into the causes and the functions of speech as a human phenomenon.
Listen to Toplocentrala podcast for an interview with Anna Dankova.
Oratoria is realized with the financial support of the Minsitry of Culture of Bulgaria and Etud Foundation.
With the partnership of Goethe-Institute Sofia and New Bulgarian University.
And many thanks to Iskra Blagoeva.
Anna Oankova, Bulgaria
Autor and Director Anna Dankova
With the participation of Vassilia Drebova, Galya Kostadinova, Alexander Gochev, Georgi Naldjiev
Speech collage Yoana Robova
Costumes Pola Popova
Video Lyubomir Draganov
Producer anyway Association
Co-producers Toplocentrala
Supported by Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria and Etud Foundation
Partners Goethe-Institute Sofia and New Bulgarian University
Many thanks to Iskra Blagoeva
